Future Salon

I am going to give a presentation on the collapse of Globalization 1.0 at the Future Salon on Friday in Palo Alto. It's an open conference, please check it out.

Comments

[todd]

Thanks a lot for the presentation. Although I read your blog it was great to hear it presented as a whole. The "red in tooth and claw" logic of it all seemed to fit together. I can't wait for your book!

Many thoughts assalted be through the talk, but the dominant take away idea for me is that the US federal government simply does not have a ROI worth the investment. In fact, the federal government harms more than it helps.

The solutions for removing Black Swan opportunites are largely local. To implement these solutions we need the money we are sending to the federal government and the ability to form our own laws and policies without the federal instinct for opacity and centralization.

[Shloky]

Sadly enough you won't get it until you rip it out of the cold dead hands of the federal government.

[todd]

> Sadly enough you won't get it until
> you rip it out of the cold dead hands
> of the federal government.

You can't imagine a scenario where there is peaceful transfer of power?

You could argue losing california would allow the red states to create the kind of world they want without the greater population of california slowing them down. It would be a win-win. Whatever arguments there were for keeping the union whole in 1850 don't apply now.

[John Robb]

The USSR did it.